“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

with your existence,

 

The mood was strange.

 

but they couldn’t

 

as if one of them would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was

 

almost chest to

 

you’re at least not

 

out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a

 

here, then? Hurry

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

right?” The man came closer, as if there was still

 

if you don’t participate in

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

the woman raked her fingers through the man’s hair and dug her nails into the

 

was twice her size, but

 

help but wonder where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I

 

and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the

 

Sad and hopeless and wretched all at the

 

eyes turned

 

have seen me. I was only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from the outside

 

smiled at

 

face I hadn’t

 

The woman was me.

 

Borgia, that’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

to make sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned

 

the room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows in

 

***

 

had me twitching, trying to

 

I tried to lift my hand, but it

 

Who got me here?

 

my memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm

 

I wanted to cry.

 

safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through

 

him in, my eyes leaving no

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

my weak hand and run my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater than anything else at the

 

was low and hoarse, almost a whisper

 

It felt like it didn’t really matter, none of

 

done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like a movie stuck on repeat

 

my own body thinking about

 

like him, the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed out. “Because I

 

“What…?”

 

long time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was

 

that had revealed itself

 

to be. When my brother had had enough of

 

been

 

“Always.”

 

into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the

 

in a situation where I’m hated without doing anything.

 

eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard

 

such a silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing at me with that

 

other arm was free, he could embrace me fully, enveloping me in his warmth, but he

 

and burying my head in the juncture where his

 

understand why my head

 

a dream, but I didn’t

 

at me like that. Because it’s not your fault. It’s

 

suffering-from-main-character-disease arrogant

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